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American Revolution and War Profiteers
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Sunday, April 24 2016, 0:30:22 (UTC)
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The American Revolution and war profiteers....

In Volume 10 of Will Durant's series The Story of Civilization, entitled “Rousseau and Revolution”, on page 711 he quotes the following:

“The business interests (British, mine) veered to support of the King as war orders brought them profits. War, Burke (Edmond Burke, mine) mourned, 'is indeed become a substitute for commerce...Great orders for provisions and stores of all kinds...keep up the spirits of the mercantile world, and induce them to consider the American war not so much their calamity as their resource.'”

I can't remember the page but in Dee Brown's “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee” he mentions a group of businessmen who missed the old Indian wars from which they had profited handsomely and who later, when there was no activity, told the one among their group who owned a newspaper to begin a series of “scare” articles writing that the Indians were getting ready to strike....their motive, as was clearly expressed, was to supply the army with all it would need to “save us”.

And that was when muskets and Winchesters and saddles and hay comprised war materiel....imagine today with battleships and gas, and jet and missiles and and and and...imagine the incentive to do a little “business”.



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